Frame

8821

Untraced

The name is the family's own, and the sheet carries no address, date, delivery promise, deposit or finish. “Cinelli Stoiler”, read as “Cinelli Spoiler” and underlined, is written beside the bottom-bracket height. The top-tube fraction is inked over by a blot and is read as 22½”; the printed 5 in the 5/10-speed brazings line is scribbled over. With no date anywhere on the sheet, year and order date are omitted.

Tubing: 653
Frame: 22"
Top tube: 22½"
Angles: 73° / 73°
Forks: 1⅜" rake x 14½"; Cinelli Aero internal crown
Ends: Super Record
Chainstays: 16½"
Seatstays: Duotaper fastback
B/bracket: 10⅝"
Headset: Campag Record 'C'
Wheels: Sprints (H.P.s struck out); the mudguard YES is scribbled through
Brazed on: Gear lever bosses, brake eyes 2 at 45° on the left-hand top tube, two sets of TA bottle cage bosses
Customer: David Standard

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